Tag: August 2012
Arizona Ruling Quakes Alabama Immigration Law
Both those who support and those who oppose Alabama’s immigration law found something to cheer about and something to criticize in the U.S....
Spotlight on Covington, Butler & Crenshaw counties
Covington, Butler and Crenshaw counties, located in southeast Alabama, are former textile-producing areas that endured hard times when that industry...
Best Small Company to Work for in Alabama: Southern States Bank
After a 25-year career with Colonial Bank in Atlanta, Stephen Whatley returned home to his native Alabama—not to retire and play golf,...
Best Medium Company to Work for in Alabama: CTS
Larry Lilley, the chief executive officer at CTS, feels a lot of positive energy these days at the company he founded...
Best Large Company to Work for in Alabama: Baker Donelson
After 13 years with Baker Donelson, Keith Andress has risen through the ranks to recently become managing shareholder of the Birmingham law...
Best Companies to Work for in Alabama
Employees like open communications, the feeling that they can make suggestions and be heard, and knowing that their job makes a...
Martin Marietta's Mad Men Blitz Kiboshed
In the spring of 2010, Vulcan Materials Inc. CEO Don James was seriously studying the next big deal—a merger by the Birmingham-based...
Rolling Stone: Jefferson County was a Mafia Hit
Rolling Stone calls it “The Scam Wall Street Learned from the Mafia” and one of the victims, they say, is Jefferson...
Health Care Stands; Alabama Leaders Divided
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the majority of federal health care reform legislation, dubbed “Obamacare, ” winning praise from some quarters, ...
Alabama Celebrates Airbus
With a light show like a rock concert and organization like a Republican political convention, Airbus announced, to a packed house...